Meet The very unique Asake Oge clothings

AsakeOge Couture was founded by Asake Agoro from Nigeria. The Label was launched  February 2009 at the London Metropolitan Fashion and Dance Charity Show when she was  invited to come up with a collection for the fundraiser.

A 3rd generation seamstress, growing up around the creative energy in a couture household  enabled her to design and make garments for herself from the age of 15. She honed an  innate skill by producing one-off pieces that soon drew the attention of those around her  who requested to have garments made for them.

The inspiration behind the designs comes from her roots and the couture collection features  exotic African animals and scenery hand painted with jewel embellishments. The ready to  wear collection features cutting edge designs in bold prints and tailored silhouettes with the  ethnic influence apparent. The Asakeoge label offers made to measure services for  occasion and everyday wear.

The garments are handmade by Asake or manufactured using mostly silk, cotton and linen  which are natural fabrics. The limited edition ready to wear is a solution to the fashion  victim who finds it easier to follow high street trends as AsakeOge instead designs and  produces original, contemporary pieces that set the trend. As well as being available online,  bespoke services are also offered for that one-off outfit you need to stand out in the crowd

 Asake herself says, “My passion for individuality is apparent in every work I create, for me  the wow-factor is non negotiable in my hand made garments. I love to enter a room and  make heads turn.”

The ready to wear draws from her couture roots with exaggerated shoulders, cinched waists  and sharp silhouettes. It celebrates the classic feminine hourglass shape with a hint of the  tribal.

The new samsung galaxy s4 reviews, and what apple is saying

In purely commercial terms, the Samsung Galaxy S III was always going to be a tough act to follow. After all, it established and then cemented Samsung’s position as the number one smartphone maker by volume - and the only one to give Apple the collywobbles.

I suspect that’s why Samsung has played it safe and opted for evolution rather than revolution with the S III’s successor. Make no mistake, the Galaxy S4 isn’t much of a trailblazer. In fact, if you were being unkind, you could accuse it of just being the Galaxy S III Mk. II.

That’s not to say Samsung hasn’t ladled on the upgrades. The screen has jumped from 4.8 inches and 1280 x 720 resolution to five inches and 1920 x 1080 while the S III’s quad-core 1.4GHz chip has been replaced by a Qualcomm APQ8064T Snapdragon 600 SoC with four Krait 300 cores clocked at 1.9GHz. It also has 2GB of RAM.
That chipset makes the S4 the most powerful smartphone on sale today. Well, almost. Then there’s another version, the I9500, which has Samsung’s own Exynos 5 Octa 5410 chip on board to give it a wee bit more grunt on paper. But the UK is only getting the LTE-compatible I9505 variant that I’ve got in my paw at the moment.

The main camera has had a pixel count boost from 8Mp to 13Mp, while the webcam has been given a rather smaller bump from 1.9Mp to 2.0Mp. The battery has been sent to the gym too: it now has a capacity of 2600mAh, rather than 2100mAh.

Many of you will doubtless be relieved to hear of the two things that Samsung has not messed with: the removable battery and the Micro SD slot. As was the case with the S III, the S4 is available with either 16, 32 or 64GB of on-board storage. Personally, I’d go for the 32GB version because the system takes up nearly 8GB of space. If memory serves me right, the 8GB Nexus 4 loses 3GB to the system, which suggests that all the Samsung-added extras take up around 5GB.

Thanks to the slavishly similar design, the S4 looks at first glance much like its predecessor. In fact, I suspect many people will be pushed to tell the two apart unless they see them side by side.

Despite the larger screen and battery, the S4 is 3g lighter, 0.8mm narrower and, at 7.9mm, 0.7mm thinner than the S III. That’s quite an achievement. The thinness of the side bezel is particularly impressive because it makes the S4 easier to use single handedly than the S III, despite the greater screen acreage.
It’s still a rather plastic affair, though a new surface treatment makes it feel less cheap than the S III. Compared to the iPhone 5 and HTC One, the S4 still doesn’t comes across as a truly premium bit of kit.
As many of you will know from my previous reviews of Galaxy handsets, I’m not a fan of the physical home button that Samsung seems wedded to. It looks and feels old fashioned to me, though it clearly doesn’t bother the millions of S III and Note 2 owners out there.

even with all these evolution, apple still has something to say: Apple Inc. (AAPL) told a U.S. judge it will seek permission to add Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of 22 “accused products” Apple alleges infringes its patents.

The disclosure came in a footnote to a filing yesterday with U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, California, responding to her April 24 directive that each side submit a limited list of the other’s allegedly infringing products.

This is the second infringement lawsuit between the companies in the same court. Apple filed the case last year to address technology in newer smartphones made by the companies.

“Apple has identified (and separately counted) specific Samsung products -- not product lines,” the Cupertino, California-based company told Koh in its six-page submission. Included on its 22-item list are Samsung’s Galaxy SII and SIII phones, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Note II hybrid phone-tablets and three Galaxy series tablet computers.

Should Apple win permission to add the Galaxy S4 smartphone that Samsung released last month, it will drop one of the other devices from the list, according to the filing.

Samsung, too, submitted a 22-product list to Koh, identifying as alleged infringers five models of Apple’s iPhone, five versions of the iPad tablet computer, three types of iPod digital-music players and the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers.

 Each side also accused the other of failing to properly interpret and comply with the court’s April 24 directive.

Apple resubmitted an “identical” list of 22 products previously shown to the court on April 22 “with one addition: the Samsung Galaxy S4 product line, which Apple admits it has not even accused in this case,” Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung claimed.

“Samsung continues to identify entire product lines as single accused products in an attempt to circumvent the court’s limit on accused products,” Apple said in its filing, citing the references to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro computers.

This second patent suit follows a case in which a jury awarded Apple $1.05 billion after finding Samsung infringed six of the iPhone maker’s mobile-device patents.

Koh, correcting what she said was the jury’s error, reduced the damages total to $639.4 million and ordered a new trial in November for some products at issue in that case

Vlisco (the famous textile company) introduces the Hommage a L'art collections

VLISCO is the only brand in the world creating authentic DUTCH WAX fabrics and is recognizable for its unique design, colours and WAX CRAQUELÉ.

The Hommage à l’Art collection honours Vlisco’s art by placing our iconic drawings in the spotlight. This theme evolves from this year’s focus on craftsmanship. Vlisco’s fabrics are known for their expressive drawings and this is just one of the things that make their brand so unique and beloved by their consumers.

This collection pays tribute to Vlisco’s drawings in a number of ways. From the feminine florals that draw on our batik heritage to modern hand-drawn abstract designs, the collection features a wide range of icons. For the first time, some of the drawings have been printed using different techniques, so that the same design is repeated in Java and Wax-block fabrics.

Various heritage drawings were also reinterpreted to give their stories a podium. These heritage drawings inspired their designers to create new fabric designs, using an amalgam of famous Vlisco icons literally placed on a pedestal. In a celebration the designers created a new fabric design by literally placing a number of famous Vlisco figures on a pedestal. Some of these symbols will be instantly recognizable to many of Vlisco’s fans, such as the Hand, the Snail, the Eyes, the Record, the Jumping Horse and the Fan.

And as always Vlisco presents an amazing campaign…the exposed experience of a photoshoot done with such glamour. The silhouettes created are also high class and makes you wonder why Vlisco do not sell designs as well as cloth…mmmh…maybe now they will.

Check out their campaign and lookbook pics below and do share your thoughts with us.

All images from the vlisco look book.

haa! :( angelina jolie removes both her breasts (mastectomy)

 

Angelina Jolie says she underwent a preventive double mastectomy earlier this year after learning she carries a gene that increases her risk of developing bréast cancer and ovarian cancer.

In a New York Times op-ed published late Monday, the 37-year-old Academy Award winner writes that after genetic testing she learned she carries the "faulty" BRCA1 gene. 

 The risk of developing cancer due to the gene varies, but Jolie says doctors estimated she had an 87 percent risk of bréast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. 

Jolie, whose mother died from cancer, says she decided to have the preventive mastectomy to be "proactive" for the sake of her six children with her partner, Brad Pitt.

"My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," Jolie writes. "She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was."

She said she has kept the process private so far, but wrote about with hopes of helping other women.

"I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy," she writes. "But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing bréast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to bréast cancer."

She is anything but private in the details she provides, giving a step-by-step description of the procedures. She writes that between early February and late April she completed three months of surgical procedures to remove both bréasts.

"My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a `nipple delay,"' she writes, "which rules out disease in the bréast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area."

She then describes the major surgery two weeks later where bréast tissue was removed, saying it felt "like a scene out of a science-fiction film," then writes that nine weeks later she had a third surgery to reconstruct the bréasts and receive implants."

Many women have chosen preventive mastectomy since genetic screening for bréast cancer was developed, but the move and public announcement is unprecedented from a star so young and widely known as Jolie.

She briefly addresses the effects of the surgery on the idealized séxuality and iconic womanhood that have fueled her fame.

"I do not feel any less of a woman," Jolie writes. "I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity."

She also wrote that Brad Pitt, her partner of eight years, was at the Pink Lotus Bréast Center in Southern California for "every minute of the surgeries."

Jolie, daughter of Hollywood luminary Jon Voight, has appeared in dozens of films including 2010's "The Tourist" and "Salt," the "Tomb Raider" films, and 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," for which she won an Academy Award.

But she has appeared more often in the news in recent years for her power coupling with Pitt and her charitable work with refugees as a United Nations ambassador.